Subject: Folder directories?

From: [email-masked] (Joseph Cain)
Date: 28 Jan 1997 19:05:31 GMT

I have now so many mail folders that it would be good to organize them
into directories. I had done this with one, but clicking on that one
will not bring me down a level, but instead fail. I can of couse use
g directory/folder
but this means typing it each time.

Does anyone know a way to do this? 
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 11:24:50 +0000 (GMT)

What you are talking about are often called "hierarchical folders" ,I
believe, by the Pine Team.  Pine does not support these yet.  (I can't
recall if they're slated for inclusion in Pine 4.0 or not.)

An alternative that you may like to investigate for the moment is to set
up some "Folder Collections" instead.  These are additional directories
containing folders.  In the Folder List screen ("L" command) these show up
as named collections which you can quickly move between, and then "expand"
(by pressing Return) to see the folders within it.  Alternatively there is
a configuration option so that they are always expanded by default.

After setting up some collections you can move between them whenever you
are asked to give a folder name (eg, "G" command, "S" command, etc).  In
particular ^N and ^P move you between collections, and any folder name you
enter is assumed to be in the selected collection.

To set up some collections:

1.  Before going into Pine, make a directory for each collection you want
    to set up.  You can make these in your home directory if you want.

    Personally I use the sneaky trick of making them subdirectories within
    my normal mail folder (called "Mail" in my home directory on our
    setup) AND giving them names beginning with a ".".  This UNIX trick
    hides the directory from Pine's normal scan for folders within my
    Mail directory.

2.  Start Pine and go to the Setup Configuration screen.  Once there have
    a look at the built-in help for the "folder-collections" variable.

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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